Izu no odoriko (1954 film)
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is a 1954 black-and-white Japanese film
directed by Yoshitaro Nomura
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It is a film adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata
's story The Dancing Girl of Izu
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Cinema of Japan
The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...
directed by Yoshitaro Nomura
Yoshitaro Nomura
Yoshitarō Nomura was a prolific Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first accredited film was released in 1953; his last in 1985...
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It is a film adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award...
's story The Dancing Girl of Izu
The Dancing Girl of Izu
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" or , published in 1926, was the first work of literature by Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata to achieve great popular and critical acclaim. Kawabata would win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968...
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Cast
- Hibari MisoraHibari Misorawas an award-winning Japanese enka singer and actress. and was the first woman in Japan to receive the People's Honour Award, which was awarded posthumously for her notable contributions to the music industry. Misora recorded 1,200 songs, and sold 68 million records. After she died, consumer demand...
- Akira Ishihama
- Azusa Yumi
- Akihiko Katayama
- Keiko Yukishiro
- Shinichi Himori
- Yoshie Minami
- Kappei Matsumoto
- Jun Tatara
- Mutsuko SakuraMutsuko Sakurawas a Japanese actress.Her hobby was golf. She started work at Shochiku in 1950, and played supporting roles in some of Yasujirō Ozu's films. She was a constant in Japanese film and TV drama for half a 20th century.- Filmography :* Chichi Koishi...